Simon Hoggart Quotes

Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside. There was much of the 'Margaret Thatcher who was lucky enough to know me,' especially from her own side of the House.

Simon Hoggart

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The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

Meles Zenawi

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A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must be wrong. Either the record company doesn't like your music, or you've been dropped. It has to something negative. It's not like you wanted to take a break, or want some balance, or smell the roses.

Maxwell

MusicBalancePeopleNegativeRoses

As an industry, the film industry is better than most. It's not perfect - I wish every company would carbon-offset their productions - but it's better than one would expect.

Jeffrey Skoll

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My family moved from Massachusetts to Maryland after my sophomore year of high school, and that's when I got the audition for 'Uncle Buck.' I took the train into New York, and I think I did the test with John Candy. Then I got the part, and it was my first movie and my first screen anything.

Jean Louisa Kelly

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Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

Jeff Bridges

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One of the things about acting is you can always use your life. You have to recall how you are and how people are and how you relate.

John Ritter

LifePeopleYouActingAlwaysYour

I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

Stephen Rea

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As a candidate for Senate, I look forward to offering reforms based on limited government principles that will make our country stronger and more prosperous.

Ron DeSantis

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We feel a brand should be free.

Masayoshi Son

FreeBrandFeelShould

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

Louise Slaughter

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My searing desire to atone for having survived helps me resist the temptations to join the world of lies.

Liu Xiaobo

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I'm really glad I had the chance to live in Jensen Beach and Stuart before everything exploded. I'm always going to be fond of that area. For me, it was a sleepy little fishing town, and it kind of represents what Florida was before the development explosion.

Judge Reinhold

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